On Jan 23, 2011, at 7:51 AM, iJohn wrote: > On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 3:36 PM, John Carmonne <carmo...@aol.com> wrote: >> >> If I use an external 3.5 7200 RPM via Firewire 400 will I gain speed over >> the internal HDD 4200 RPM in my Mac Mini? >> > > That's a hard one to guess at. But my guess would be no, I don't think > you'd see a gain. Or if there was one, it would not be as large as you > hoped. When you connect via Firewire 400 you will never be able to > move data faster than Firewire 400's 400Mbps bus speed. I suppose it's > possible that a 7200 RPM drive would still appear to perform faster > than an internal 4200 RPM, but I wouldn't count on it. OK then let me ask is the internal drive Bus 167 speed going to be faster than the same drive connected to the FireWire 400? And does that relate to overall performance of my G4 PPC Mac Mini 1.25?
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